History: Real estate agent Arthur Douglas, his wife Yvette, and
daughter Heather, were driving across the Mojave Desert from Las Vegas to Los Angeles when
a spaceship carrying the mad Titanian named Thanos passed overhead on a surveillance
mission to Earth.Wishing to keep his existence a secret, Thanos destroyed the automobile
in case its passengers had seen his ship, and then landed to make certain they were dead.
Satisfied that they were, Thanos left. Unknown to the Titanian, his father Mentor had been
monitoring, his activities on Earth, to examine his son's latest handiwork. Mentor
discovered that Heather Douglas was still alive, and took her back to Titan to be raised.
She later returned to Earth as Moondragon Mentor determined that the threat of his son
Thanos could no longer be ignored and wanted to create a being of sufficient power to
defeat Thanos. Enlisting the aid of his father Chronos, who millennia before had become a
discorporate wraith. Mentor had Chronos seize the astral form (living consciousness) of
Arthur Douglas before it had completely fled from Douglas's body. Chronos and Mentor then
fashioned a humanoid body from the earth's soil, granted it superhuman powers, and cast
Douglas' spirit inside it. Thus they created the being who would become known as Drax the
Destroyer. Mentor blocked all of Drax's memories of his old life, instilling in him
monomaniacal hate for Thanos. For years, Drax served as Thanos's nemesis, thwarting
certain of the Titanian's plans, but never crushing Thanos himself. Thanos hired legions
of alien mercenaries just to keep Drax away from him. Finally, in Thanos's campaign to
possess the Cosmic Cube, Drax in the company of the Avengers. Captain Mar Vell, and
Moondragon, saw Thanos destroyed. Suddenly lacking a reason for existence, Drax wandered
space in grim contemplation. By the time he learned that Thanos had managed to
rematerialize himself, Thanos had once again been killed this time by being permanently
turned to stone. Drax, purposeless again, used Captain Mar-vell as a scapegoat upon whom
to vent his frustrations. Sometime later, Drax was contacted by his daughter Moondragon
and invited to join her in her journey through space in search of knowledge. Drax
accepted. The two rode aboard Moondragon's personal starship Sensia, and came upon the
planet Ba Banis, a world of humanoid aliens caught in a vast civil war. Moondragon decided
to used her mental powers to quell the conflict and then decided to set herself up as the
world's goddess Drax recognized that her ambitions were ignoble and so sent their ship to
Earth with a holographic distress message The Avengers responded and discovered
Moondragon's world of mentally enforced tranquility. Freed by the Avengers from his
daughter's mental domination, Drax advanced toward her, seeking to end her menace. In
order to stop him Moondragon mentally forced Drax's Iife essence to vacate his artificial
body. Later, after subduing Moondragon and returning to Earth, the Avengers placed Drax's
body inside Sensia and sent it into space programmed to self destruct, Without Drax's
spirit inside it, Drax s body was destroyed when the Sensia exploded.

Powers: Drax possessed a variety of superhuman powers utilizing
the cosmic energy bestowed upon his artificial form by Chronos and Mentor. Drax had
super-human strength and was capable of lifting (pressing) 40 tons. His body, while
possessed by his spirit was totally invulnerable to all forms of physical injury Drax
could fly by harnessing cosmic energy as a propulsion source. The maximum rate of speed
that Drax could attain is not known: he could, however make interplanetary journeys in a
manner of weeks. Drax could also harness his cosmic energy and channel it through his arms
for concessive blasts. The maximum amount of force that Drax could wield is not known; he
could, however, shatter large ferrous meteors.